Chief Justice Roberts Presses Trump Lawyer On Whether Total Immunity Should Cover a President Who Took a Bribe

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Chief Justice Roberts Presses Trump Lawyer On Whether Total Immunity Should Cover a President Who Took a Bribe

Chief Justice John Roberts grilled former President Donald Trump’s attorney over his argument that presidential immunity could cover bribery. During oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Republican nominee’s lawyer, John Sauer, claimed that a president could not be charged with bribery due to presidential immunity. Trump’s legal counsel has argued for months that the former president cannot be charged with alleged crimes he commit…